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Pioneers of Science and Technology Video Tape Project. Oral history interviews of the Pioneers of Science and Technology Video Tape Project, 1984-1988.

Title: Oral history interviews of the Pioneers of Science and Technology Video Tape Project, 1984-1988.

Videotaped oral histories on the development of digital computing including the design of early digital computers, the design of IBM computers, the creation of FORTRAN, and the design of microprocessors . Interviewees include: John V. Atanasoff, Cuthbert Hurd, John Backus, and Ted Hoff.

ArchivalResource: 4 videocassettes (VHS) (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62685232 View

Earl R. Larson papers, 1981-1985

Title: Earl R. Larson papers 1981-1985

Collection contains correspondence and newspaper clippings relating to the Honeywell vs. Sperry Rand trial and John V. Atanasoff's recognition as the inventor of the electronic digital computer. Includes correspondence from historical researchers, awards committees, Atanasoff, and the patent counsel from Honeywell.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (0.1 cubic feet)

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Hansen, Henry L. Papers, 1942-1989.

Title: Papers, 1942-1989.

This collection contains articles, publications, newsclippings, chronological event lists, correspondence, memorandum, microfiche, legal records, trial transcripts, and photographs. Collected by Henry L. Hansen, these records document Honeywell's efforts to overturn the 1964 patent (and ultimately, they were successful). Collection includes the history and background of the ENIAC; correspondence between Honeywell, Inc. and John V. Atanasoff; motions, affidavits, subpoenas, memorandum, briefs, and trial transcripts of several related legal cases; publications concerning the trials and other computer topics; and photographs and slides of the ENIAC, the ABC Computer, and witnesses.

ArchivalResource: 2.94 linear ft. (8 document boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35622973 View

Computer Oral History Collection

Title: Computer Oral History Collection

The collection is comprised of the over 200 oral history interviews, transcripts and supplemental materials documenting the development of the computer. Materials include videotapes, John Vincent Atanasoff material, working papers, reports, drawings and photographs.

ArchivalResource: Approx. 39 cu. ft.

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Honeywell, inc. Honeywell vs. Sperry Rand records, 1864-1973 (1925-1973).

Title: Honeywell vs. Sperry Rand records, 1864-1973 (1925-1973).

Copies of the plaintiff's exhibits, the trial transcript, some depositions and corresponding exhibits, photographs, motion pictures, and Larson's written conclusion. Nearly all of the exhibits are photocopies, and most date before 1953. A complete trial transcript is available on microfiche, as well as separate key-word indexes to the transcript and exhibits. The collection contains information about the ENIAC and the Atanasoff-Berry Computer, individuals associated with their development, activities at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering (University of Pennsylvania), computers such as the EDVAC, BINAC, and UNIVAC, the involvement of government agencies, and general information about the early computer industry, especially Honeywell, Remington Rand, Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation, IBM, Raytheon, RCA, General Electric, NCR, and Burroughs.

ArchivalResource: 19.5 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63287864 View

Burks, Arthur W. (Arthur Walter), 1915-2008,. Oral history interview with Arthur W. Burks, ca. 1976.

Title: Oral history interview with Arthur W. Burks, ca. 1976.

Burks begins the interview discussing his early education and his training at the University of Michigan and the Moore School of Electrical Engineering. He describes his work with John Mauchly, Herman Goldstine, John Grist Brainerd, and J. Presper Eckert on the ENIAC in detail. Much of the interview is devoted to aspects of the EDVAC and ENIAC computers: logical and arithmetical design, attitudes of project staff, early operations, demonstrations., and contributions of consultants, notably John Vincent Atanasoff and John von Neumann. Burks recounts his work on the Institute for Advanced Study computer project, especially his work with Goldstine and von Neumann.

ArchivalResource: sound cassette : 1 (60 min.) : analog, mono.Transcript : 32 p.Computer data (1 file : 50K)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63283020 View

Hopper, Grace Murray. Oral history interview with Grace Murray Hopper, ca. 1976.

Title: Oral history interview with Grace Murray Hopper, ca. 1976.

In this wide ranging interview Hopper begins by discussing her involvement with early custom computers, work with the U.S. Navy, and the evolution of programming. She describes her work under Howard Aiken and with Richard Bloch and Robert V. D. Campbell on the Mark I computer at Harvard University during World War II. Hopper compares the Mark I with the ENIAC and Whirlwind computers and discusses the influence of Charles Babbage and John V. Atanasoff on the design of custom computers. She concludes the interview with a discussion of her work under J. Presper Eckert and John W. Mauchly in Remington Rand's Univac Division.

ArchivalResource: Computer data (1 file : 43K)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63289916 View

ENIAC Trial exhibits master collection, 1864-1973, (bulk 1938-1971)

Title: ENIAC Trial exhibits master collection 1864-1973 (bulk 1938-1971)

Collection contains 211 microfilm rolls of the plaintiff's and defendants' trial exhibits presented in the patent infringement case of Honeywell Incorporated vs. Sperry Rand Corporation and Illinois Scientific Developments, Incorporated. The microfilm are a combination of archival materials held at three collaborating institutions: the Charles Babbage Institute, the Hagley Museum and Library and University Archives and Records Center at the University of Pennsylvania. The combined master collection that was microfilmed follows the original order assigned by the court and the parties to the suit.

ArchivalResource: 211 microfilm rolls

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Atanasoff, John V. (John Vincent). Papers, 1925-1995.

Title: Papers, 1925-1995.

This collection contains biographical records, correspondence from colleagues, friends, and students, business records relating to the Aerojet Corporation, invention records which detail Atanasoff's fascination with computing, and other more practical needs, research and publications, legal records, language study records, and printed materials.

ArchivalResource: 20.16 linear ft. (42 document boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44753158 View

Yuter, Seymour C.,. Technitrol, Inc., lawsuit records, 1945-1976.

Title: Technitrol, Inc., lawsuit records, 1945-1976.

The collection consists of copies of trial records collected by Seymour C. Yuter, a patent attorney for Technitrol, Inc. They include documents from the interlocking suits of Technitrol v. Control Data Corp., Technitrol v. Sperry Rand, and Technitrol v. U.S.A., which came to trial between the late 1950s and the mid 1970s. The principal point at issue was, who was the inventor of the magnetic storage drum. The records provide a fascinating picture of the early history of the computer industry and trace the role played by the military in the years immediately after World War II.

ArchivalResource: 23 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122457977 View

Computer Oral History Collection

Title: Computer Oral History Collection

The Computer Oral History Collection (1969-1973, 1977), was a cooperative project of the American Federation of Information Processing Societies (AFIPS) and the Smithsonian Institution. This project began in 1967 with the main objective to collect, document, house, and make available for research source material surrounding the development of the computer.

ArchivalResource: 43.5 Cubic feet (158 boxes)

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History of physics manuscript biography collection A-C, 1901-1989, [ca. 1960]-1989 (bulk).

Title: History of physics manuscript biography collection A-C, 1901-1989, [ca. 1960]-1989 (bulk).

Included are typescript autobiographical or biographical essays about physicists, solicited since 1960 by the American Institute of Physics, and responses to biographical questionnaires sent to physicists working chiefly in the following areas: nuclear physics, astronomy and astrophysics, laser science, and geophysics. Other biographical and autobiographical writings take the form of letters, eulogies, travel diaries, curriculum vitae, and bibliographies. All of these document the lives and scientific careers of physicists born roughly between the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Among those represented are C.G. Abbot, Walter S. Adams, Arthur Adel, Paul Gough Agnew, Thomas Alexander, Leroy R. Alldredge, Fred Allison, IA. L. Alpert, Howard Andrews, Norman Austern, Harold Babcock, Lewis Balamuth, Ralph Belknap Baldwin, N.P. Barabashov, E. Scott Barr, H.H. Barschall, Carl Barus, Michael Bass, Robert Harold Bassel, Bath, Markus, Louis Andrew Beach, Linn Yardley Beers, Norman Carl Beese, William E. Bell, David Fulmer Bender, Walter Benenson, Harold E. Bennett, Ralph Decker Bennett, Robert Thomas Beyer, Ludwig Biermann, S. Biswas, John Paul Blewett, Arnold Lapin Bloom, David Bohm, Bertram Bordon Boltwood, Ludwig Boltzmann, Arnold Aaron Bondi, Max Born, Ira Bowen, Emily Hughes Boyce, Constance Doraine Boyd, D.B. Brace, James J. Brady, Walter H. Brattain, Aubrey Keith Brewer, Richard G. Brewer, William B. Bridges, Leon Brillouin, Herbert P. Broida, Frederick Lyons Brown, James William Broxon, Keith Allan Brueckner, Reid AJ. Bryson, Arthur Maynard Bueche, W.E. Burcham, J.M. Burgers, Robert L. Burman, Walter G. Cady, Jack Calvert A.G.W. Cameron, Lee Wendel Casperson, James MacDonald Cassels, Georgeanne Robertson Caughlan, Britton Chance, Arnold Franklin Clark, Donald Clayton, Clarence Higbee Cleminshaw, Robert Griffin Coleman, Daniel F. Comstock, Edward Uhler Condon, C. Sharp Cook, William David Coolidge, Richard Threlkeld Cox, William Henry Crew, Samuel Curran.

ArchivalResource: 63 linear ft. (ca. 550 items) in entire collection.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80616266 View

Larson, Earl R. Earl R. Larson papers, 1981-1985.

Title: Earl R. Larson papers, 1981-1985.

Correspondence and newspaper clippings relating to the Honeywell vs. Sperry Rand trial and John V. Atanasoff's recognition as the inventor of the electronic digital computer. Includes correspondence from historical researchers, awards committees, Atanasoff, and the patent counsel from Honeywell.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63305672 View

Eckert, J. Presper (John Presper), 1919-1995,. Oral history interview with J. Presper Eckert, Kathleen Mauchly, James McNulty, and William Cleaver, 1980 Jan. 23.

Title: Oral history interview with J. Presper Eckert, Kathleen Mauchly, James McNulty, and William Cleaver, 1980 Jan. 23.

The interviewees describe their experiences at the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering in the 1940s. Eckert outlines disputes he and John Mauchly had with the University administration over the assignment of patent rights to the ENIAC, and disputes over other issues with John G. Brainerd, the first director of the ENIAC project. Eckert and McNulty share their views on John von Neumann's influence on the ENIAC and EDVAC projects. The group discusses the Honeywell vs. Sperry Rand litigation and the judgement against Eckert and Mauchly's patent claim to the electronic digital computer. They uniformly dispute the court's finding in favor of John V. Atanasoff's contribution.

ArchivalResource: Computer data (1 file : 234K)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63297207 View

Sperry Corporation. Univac Division. Records, 1877-1970.

Title: Records, 1877-1970.

The records of Sperry's Univac Division are an important source for the history of the American computer industry, from its beginnings into the 1970s.

ArchivalResource: Mss.: 616 linear ft.Photographs: 3,189 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122459234 View

Sperry Rand Corporation. Univac Division. Honeywell vs. Sperry Rand Records, 1935-1973.

Title: Honeywell vs. Sperry Rand Records, 1935-1973.

The Honeywell-Sperry Rand lawsuit produced 50,000 pages of trial transcript, and over 36,000 documents were entered in evidence. Sperry Rand's lawyers produced a huge archive of trial documents. Two major files were created, the "Original file" of documents from Sperry Rand's own archives, and the "Chronological file" of all documents located during the discovery process and entered as exhibits. The trial archive is a major source on the history of the computer industry.

ArchivalResource: 181 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122503543 View

Atanasoff, John V. (John Vincent). Oral history interview with John V. Atanasoff, 1985 March 19.

Title: Oral history interview with John V. Atanasoff, 1985 March 19.

Atanasoff recalls his education in mathematics, his development of the initial designs for a computer in 1937-1939, and the assistance of Clifford Berry in the construction of the prototype and working computer. Atanasoff concludes with a discussion of his involvement in later litigation over the patents for the ENIAC.

ArchivalResource: 1 videocassette (VHS) (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62685206 View

Honeywell vs. Sperry Rand records, 1846-1973, (bulk 1925-1973)

Title: Honeywell vs. Sperry Rand records 1846-1973 (bulk 1925-1973)

This collection contains pretrial depositions, plaintiff exhibits, deposition exhibits, trial testimony, trial exhibits, the final opinion and judgement, and indexes from the 1971 Honeywell vs. Sperry Rand suit.

ArchivalResource: 52 boxes (20.75 cubic feet)

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Stewart, Robert M. (Robert Murray), 1924-. Papers, 1930-1988.

Title: Papers, 1930-1988.

This collection contains Dr. Stewart's correspondence, biographical information, papers, proposals, and research program notes relating to atmospheric research. In an interesting computer historical note, he is the professor who dismantled the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC) (generally thought of as the world's first electronic digital computer built on the Iowa State College (University) campus by Dr. John Vincent Atanasoff and graduate student Clifford Berry). Other highlights include a film script: "From One John V. Atanasoff" and correspondence with Dr. John Vincent Atanasoff.

ArchivalResource: 1.26 linear ft. (3 document boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/56103171 View

Atanasoff, John V. (John Vincent). Papers, 1930-1989.

Title: Papers, 1930-1989.

Collection contains biographical material, photographs, addresses, awards and remarks, publications, correspondence, clippings, and information on the history and development of the electronic digital computer. Also included is a videocassette tape of the 1983 documentary film produced by the ISU Media Production unit as well as associated working papers dealing with the making of the film. Unprocessed materials relate chiefly to the patent trial (legal briefs and Atanasoff's testimony and deposition).

ArchivalResource: Processed materials: 1.3 linear ft. (4 document boxes)Unprocessed materials: 6 Paige boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27797949 View

Caldwell, Wallace Caughey. Papers, 1983-2003.

Title: Papers, 1983-2003.

This collection contains correspondence and news clippings regarding John Vincent Atanasoff and the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC) collected by Wallace C. Caldell. Most of the correspondence is related to Caldwell's efforts to have Atanasoff, along with graduate student Clifford Berry, recognized as the inventor of the digital electroonic computer. Of note is correspondence with producers from WGBH in Boston regarding the series "The Machine that Changed the World" which aired in 1991 on the Public Broadcasing Service (PBS). The television show chronicled the history of the computer, but omitted Atanasoff and the ABC. Caldwell was also instrumental in having the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) recognize the efforts of Atanasoff and Berry by naming the ABC a national Electrical Engineering Milestone. A bronze plaque hangs in Physics Hall on the Iowa State campus commemorating this achievement. Photographs showing Caldwell presenting a framed photograph of the plaque to Atanasoff are in the collection. The collection also contains materials regarding celebrations of the ABC and Atanasoff sponsored by Iowa State, correspondence of others regarding proper recognition of the ABC, and news clippings and writings about the ABC and its controversial status as the first digital electronic computer. For more information on John Vincent Atanasoff and the Atanasoff-Berry Computer se the John Vincent Atanasoff Papers, RS 13/20/51, and the Office of University Relations John Vincent Atanasoff Colletcion, RS 5/2/1/1.

ArchivalResource: 0.42 linear ft. (1 document box).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/192101351 View

Moore School of Electrical Engineering. ENIAC Patent Trial Collection, 1864-1973 (bulk 1938-1971).

Title: ENIAC Patent Trial Collection, 1864-1973 (bulk 1938-1971).

The ENIAC Patent Trial Records represent the copies kept by the University of Pennsylvania, particularly by John Grist Brainerd, of depositions, trial exhibits, and transcripts. Brainerd kept these records to assist him in his testimony for the case. Most of the material are photocopies with the exception of four original technical notebooks from the Mauchly Co. in the defendant's trial exhibits.

ArchivalResource: 95 Cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122491080 View

Iowa State University. University Relations. John Vincent Atanasoff Collection, 1941-[ongoing]

Title: John Vincent Atanasoff Collection, 1941-[ongoing]

John Vincent Atanasoff received his M.S. (1926) in Mathematics from Iowa State College (University) and received his Ph.D. (1930) in theoretical physics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He returned to Iowa State in 1930 as Assistant Professor in mathematics and physics and was promoted to Associate Professor (1936). Atanasoff began developing concepts for an electronic computing machine in 1937. It was shortly thereafter that he, along with graduate student Clifford Berry, started work on the world's first electronic digital computer. The computer would later be named the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC). Work on the machine stopped at the start of World War II in 1941 and the ABC was never patented. Atanasoff and Berry were both called to support the war effort and left Iowa State. By the end of the decade, the ABC was removed from the basement of Physics Hall and dismantled. Atanasoff and the ABC were part of a major court case between Honeywell, Inc and Sperry Rand Corporation which occurred 1967-1973. The case involved the ENIAC patent which covered basic ownership rights to the design of electronic digital computers. During the trial, the judge concluded that the invention of the ENIAC was derived from the work of John Vincent Atanasoff at Iowa State University. A replica of the Atanasoff-Berry Computer was completed and unveiled to the public in 1996. The ABC replica was constructed by a team of Iowa State scientists at the Ames Laboratory and was exhibited at museums throughout the country over the next several years.

ArchivalResource: 6.46 linear ft. (3 records center cartons, 3 document boxes, 1 half-document box, and 1 oversized box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/76877117 View

Mollenhoff, Clark R. Papers, 1968-1990.

Title: Papers, 1968-1990.

This collection contains correspondence, depositions, photographs, publications, and video cassette tapes. This collection consists of Mollenhoff's subject files on John Vincent Atanasoff and the J.V. Atanasoff Trial, ca. 1970s-1990s. The subject files include biographical information on Atanasoff; published works on the development of the computers; newspaper clippings; and correspondence with other contacts and researchers. Recent accessions include scrapbooks and chapter proofs for Mollenhoff's book.

ArchivalResource: 10.4 linear ft. (8 records center cartons)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40473036 View

Sperry Rand Corporation. Univac Division. Sperry Rand Corporation vs. Control Data Corporation records, 1947-1975.

Title: Sperry Rand Corporation vs. Control Data Corporation records, 1947-1975.

The records of the Sperry Rand CDC case includes plaintiff's and defendant's briefs, pleadings of selected depositions (John Mauchly, Arnold Cohen, John Vincent Atanasoff), attorney correspondence, and exhibits. The exhibits addressed the issue of who invented the magnetic storage drum. There is a copy of ERA's 1948 contract with the Office of Naval Research to build the Atlas computer, Project Goldberg progress reports, laboratory notebooks of ERA engineers Arnold Cohen, William Keye, Lowell Brown, and Dr. Donald Dubbert, and 1947 report by Arnold Cohen, "Internal Storage by Magnetic Recording". Also included are copies of Eckert and Mauchly's notes on memory systems and delay storage, as well as progress reports on the EDVAC computer which was developed by the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation and the lawyers for Sperry Rand claimed was the first computer with stored-memory capability.

ArchivalResource: 14 linear ft.

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Auerbach, Isaac L. (Isaac Levin), 1921-1992. A survey of large scale computing machines, 1947 [Photoprints].

Title: A survey of large scale computing machines, 1947 [Photoprints].

Isaac Auerbach began his report by noting developments in analog computing beginning in the late 19th century. Particular attention was focused on Vannevar Bush's differential analyzer. He then explored the advantages of digital computing and explained the basic elements of computational theory as they were understood in the late 1940s. Auerbach's final section surveyed current projects at research institutions (Harvard Computation Laboratory, Iowa State College, National Bureau of Standards, Princeton University's Institute for Advanced Study, and MIT) and at commercial firms (Electronic Control Company, Engineering Research Associates, IBM, Raytheon, Eastman Kodak, and Bell Laboratories). Aeurbach concluded his report by analyzing the commercial market for electronic digital computers.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/164039114 View